tks for answering karam..maybe my english is not the best..the twoquoted statements say the same thing for me..with speedpatch the phone seems faster but i am kind of disapointed abot the xterm message and about batterypatch..well in my experience for now,although i understand your theory, dlesnt work for me as i could confirm it drains mmore battery...hope you dont take this the wrong way as you are one of my n900 heroes..hope you continue to work and improve and in a near future prove me wrong.